This document discusses dumping and the conditions for imposing anti-dumping duties. It defines dumping as exporting a product at a lower price in a foreign market than in the domestic market. Dumping can have advantages like penetrating new markets, but also disadvantages like retaliation. Anti-dumping measures aim to counter the trade-distorting effects of dumping and include tariffs and import quotas. For a country to impose anti-dumping duties, there must be evidence of dumping, injury to a domestic industry, and a causal link between the dumping and injury. The effects of anti-dumping laws can be both positive in protecting domestic industries, and negative in creating trade barriers.
Economics of Dumping and Conditions to Impose Anti-Dumping Duties
1. ECONOMICS OF DUMPING
AND CONDITIONS TO
IMPOSE ANTI-DUMPING
DUTIES
Presented By:
SAKSHI VARSHNEY
NIKITA MANGAL
2. Contents
What is Dumping?
Advantages and Disadvantages of Dumping
Types of Dumping
Objectives of Dumping
Effects of Dumping
What is Anti-Dumping?
Anti-Dumping measures
Conditions to impose Anti-Dumping Duties
Effect of Anti-Dumping Laws
Conclusion
3. DUMPING
Dumping is a term used in the context of
international trade. It's when a country or
company exports a product at a price that is lower in
the foreign importing market than the price in the
exporter's domestic market.
Dumping is an international price discrimination in
which an exporter firm sells a portion of its output
in a foreign market at a very low price and the
remaining output at a high price in the home market.
Dumping occurs when :-
Normal Value in Export market > Export Price
4. Advantages of Dumping
Ability to permeate a market
Willing to take losses
Attack on other country’s industry
Disadvantages of Dumping
Expensive to maintain
Retaliation by trade partner
Censure by international trade organizations
6. Objectives of Dumping
To Find a Place in the Foreign Market
To Sell Surplus Commodity
Expansion of Industry
New Trade Relations
7. Effects of Dumping
Effects on Importing country: Depends on
i) The period of dumping
ii) Nature of product
iii) Aim of Dumping
8. Effects on exporting country
Sellers dump commodities to another countries – lack of
commodities in their home country – leads to increase in price
and loss in consumer surplus.
If Monopolist increase production and produce more – marginal
cost falls – leads to decrease in price and consumers benefit.
More production will lead to increase in demand of inputs –
expanding means of employment.
Earning more foreign currency – balance of trade improves.
9. ANTI-DUMPING
Anti-dumping is a measure to rectify the situation arising out of the dumping of goods
and its trade distortive effect. An anti-dumping duty is a protectionist tariff that a
domestic government imposes on foreign imports that it believes are priced below fair
market value.
Thus, the purpose of anti-dumping duty is to rectify the trade distortive effect of dumping
and re-establish fair trade.
The use of anti-dumping measure as an instrument of fair competition is permitted by the
WTO. It provides relief to the domestic industry against the injury caused by dumping.
10. Anti-Dumping Measures
Tariff Duty: High rates of import tariff on dumping.
Import Quota: Restricts the volume of imports.
Import Embargo: Bans the import of a particular product or all
goods from a country.
Voluntary Export Restraint: Exporting countries realizes the
negative effect and voluntarily comes for Bilateral agreements.
11. Conditions for Imposing Anti-Dumping Duties
Sufficient evidence to the effect that-
There is dumping
There is injury
There is a casual link between the dumping and the injury, that is to say, that the dumped
imports have caused the alleged injury.
Otherwise; if there is dumping but no injury then, no duty can be imposed.
And for some nations:
Community Interest
12. Impact of Anti-Dumping Laws
Pros
•Prevent Monopolies
•Protects vulnerable
industries
•Provide time to firms
to compete
•Preserve jobs
Cons
•Against free trade
concept
•Trade barrier – lowers
economic growth
•Protects firms from
competition
•Hurts consumers
•Distorts the market
13. Conclusion
As explained above, it can be observed that adopting anti-dumping measures can harm
the country rather than providing benefit .
According to Article IV of GATT 1984, which now forms part of the World Trade
Organization (WTO), a country can adopt anti-dumping measures only if the dumped
imports “injure” the industry of the country.
Or it will also be regarded as dumped if the export price of the commodity is less than
its comparable price for final consumption in the exporting county. Under these
situations, the importing country can impose anti-dumping duty, provided the margin of
dumping is more than 2% of the export price or is more than 7% of the dumped import.